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Coaches' confidence in their coaching abilities has a great influence on athletes and the results from their activity. In an attempt to explain coaching efficacy some authors relate it to emotional intelligence. The aim of the present research is to study the interdependence between emotional intelligence and coaching efficacy among football coaches. Methodology: The research was done among 50 football coaches aged between 23 and 45 years with different level of qualification. In order to fulfill the aim, we used: 1) Background information; 2) Coaching Efficacy Scale (CES;

The activities performed by people who go on military missions or on Antarctic expeditions to Livingston Island often arise various questions and interpretations. On the one hand, they suppose a tendency toward risky acts; on the other hand, they require discipline and balance in one's behavior. The aim of our study was to examine the peculiarities of the need of security and the need of sensation seeking as basic personal variables of participants in military missions in Afghanistan and Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions and to examine their relation to the coping strategies applied. The research was done among 141 individuals (107 participants in Bulgarian military contingent which took part in an international NATO mission in

The subjective experience of success could lead to different kinds of behavior effects-from mobilization and psychic upheaval to self-reassurance, disorganization, and loss of activity. Regardless its great practical importance, the issue of cope with success is still not sufficiently explored. The aim of the present study is to examine the connections and interrelations among goal orientation, definition, determinants and consequences of success and the coping strategies used. The research was done among 115 competitors practicing different kinds of sport, divided into groups according to their age, gender and qualification. We used: 1) Specially developed scale for examining the attitude towards success; 2) Task and Ego orientation in Sport Questionnaire (Duda&Nicholls, 1992), adapted for Bulgarian conditions (Domuschieva-Rogleva, 2003). The competitors define success mainly as confidence and self-proving. Mobilization and belief in one's abilities are dominant. The most significant factors for success are good preparation and input efforts. There are some negative consequences with some of the athletes-relaxation, insufficient efforts, and enhanced emotional reactions. The goal orientation towards the task and the cognitive engaged coping strategies are dominant. There are significant differences depending on gender, age and qualification. The relations between the researched indexes were outlined. The obtained results, as well as the established regularities point at the possibilities of mastering and regulating the negative consequences in the process of preparation, with certain purposeful, scientifically grounded influence, part of which are coping strategies.

The ХХV Bulgarian Antarctic expedition on the Livingston isles, which included scientists and alpinists, began in November 2016. The participants' activities are highly dependent on the extreme conditions they are in.The aim of the present researchis to studydynamics ofanxiety and perceived stress and to find a relation with the participants'preferred strategies for coping with stress in highly risky activities in an extreme climatic and social environment.Subject of the study were 21 participants in the ХХV Bulgarian Antarctic expedition, mean age 27 and 70. We have used Bulgarian adaptation of: Spielberger's Anxiety Inventory (STAI);Questionnaire for perceived stress (PS-1) and Coping Orientations to Problems Expe-rienced scale -COPE 1. The first two tests were applied before the departure for Antarctica and before the return to Bulgaria.The level of perceived stress in the beginning of the expedition issignificantly higher compared to the resultsobtained in the end of the expedition.Similar results were observed in terms of situational anxiety, which refers to the dynamic mental states.The cognitive engage-ment coping strategies are the main ones, whereas cognitive and emotional disengagement strategies are the least used.The results from the regression analysis show that the high levels of perceived stress has the biggest impact on the levels of anxiety in participants studied.The present study adds to the understanding the role of anxietyand perceived stressin difficult and challenging missions in extreme conditions in highly risky activities.

The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has had a significant impact on all areas of people’s lives, including education. The aim of this study was to identify the impact of social and gender factors on the psychological state of students facing a situation of uncertainty, changing conditions of activity and communication caused by the quarantine regime. The article includes a theoretical review and the results of a study conducted during the period of social exclusion introduced in the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 in April 2020. The data collection took the form of an online survey in which students from the Ural Federal University and the Ural Technological College in Yekaterinburg participated. A total of 81 students (38 females and 43 males) took part in the study. The methods used were a sociodemographic questionnaire (Aurelio Olmedilla, 2020) and an adapted Russian-language version of the Profile of Psychological States (McNair, Lorr, Droppleman, 1971). Mathematical processing of the results was carried out with use of the Student’s t-criterion. The results of the study revealed a slight increase in negative states in most students, above all an increase in the state of tension. At the same time, the obtained results revealed statistically significant differences in the psychological states of students depending on the extent of their involvement in sport, gender and the number of people living together. Further research could focus on the role of personal determinants in influencing students’ psychological states.

Introduction: The role of parents in contemporary sport is much more frequently researched nowadays. In the recent years the balance in the triangle "coach-athlete-parent" has often been disrupted. On the one hand, the positive role of parents has been emphasized. On the other hand, the high expectations and pressure on behalf of parents may turn into a serious negative factor. This manuscript presents the results from a survey of Parent-initiated motivational climate and its relation to Perceived Motivational Climate and Goal orientation in sport. The aim of present study is to research Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate among athletes practicing different kinds of sport and to seek its relations with Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire and Goal orientation in Sport. Methodology: The research was done among 114 competitors practicing 5 kinds of sport (volleyball, fencing, rhythmic gymnastics, football, and tennis) aged between 11 and 17 years, divided into groups according to their sport, gender and qualification.

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